OpenAI Brings Premium Seats to Business

AI subscriptions are becoming capacity markets: the differentiator is increasingly how much work a user can push through, not simply which model they can access.

• –Premium targets heavy users whose workflows are interrupted by usage caps.
• –The 5x multiplier and predictable weekly resets make capacity easier to budget, but the price is five times Standard monthly pricing.
• –Mixed seat types let companies reserve expensive capacity for developers, analysts, and other power users.
• –Workspace credits create an additional usage-based escape hatch when included capacity runs out.
• –For developers, the value depends less on raw model quality than on uninterrupted Codex and ChatGPT workflows.